The comet. (Johnson City, Tenn.) 1884-1916, 1887-10-13

bles of England and France and the
grandees of the German empire could
neither read nor write, when the liter
ature of those realms consisted of a
few miserable manuscripts, and were
read only by few monks, Arabia pos
sessed splendid Libraries, and her mag
nifcent schools and colleges,made her
the center of learning and of civiiza-
ton.
Borrowing the germ of the idea of
education from the Chinese, the Ara
bians cultivated and enlarged it, and
soon reared upon it the superb edifce
OF eastern learning,
Agriculture and the arts revived
with letters and science, and COM
merce spread her wings to the winds
and sent her rich argosies to the ports
of the world, Thus was Arabia, while
she honored the precepts Of her great
teacher, and practiced the lessons he
taught, the home of science, the dwell
ling place of art, and the patron and
protector of labor and the working
man. But when pufed up with pride
and enervated with luxury hel degen-
rated sons ceased 10 honor labor ::
when they began to hold the working
men in discredit-when they forgot
the origin pf greatness, the source of
their prosperity, then distemper and
decay came upon her. Her grandeur
and beauty withered and faded, and
her strength and glory departed, and
happy Arabia shrunk into primitive
barbarism, a wasted tribute of the sub
lime porte sufferings of the homeless,
outcast Israelites, wanderers upon the
face of the earth, human language
will ever fail to describe; and yet to
the indomitable energy and industry,
to the frugality and commercial ardor
OF the despised down trodden Jews,
the world is perhaps more largely in
debted to the preservation and spread
of civilization than to any other, or all
other causes.
Whilst in many countries industry
and labor in their useful forms have
been fostered for Il time, only to be
abandoned and discarded in the end,
the Jews in all time haye been their
efficient guardians and examplars.
Whether as artizaps or manufactur
ers, plying their vocations in the snow
fields and icebergs of the frozen zones
or on the lines of latitude deep within
( the burning tropics, they are always
and forever, upon the land and sea
the persevering sons OF toll. Not all
the atrocious bigoted fanaticism, not
all of the unimaginable sufferings civil
ecclesiastical, or military authority
could devise and infict, not all the
pains and penalties that diabolical in.
genuity and unrestrained tyranny
could execute, have been able to de-
stroy or essentially change the cnarac
teristics and habits of this heaven pre-
served race. Homeless everywhere
yet everywhere at home, subjects Of
all governments, yet without coun
try, scorned by all people in turn, cru
ely expelled from all nations, massa
cred by the thousand, still the pecu
liar children of Isreal live. They still
survive to encourage labor by trade
to stimulate industry by commerce, tC
facilitate the advance OF civilization
by controlling the finances of kings
and welding their mighty enemy
power in the interests of labor
On the line Of their retreat, wh(
robbed them but the plundering Johr
and that infamous Edward Of England
Who banished them? Philip Angus
tus and Charles Louis of France strip
ped and expatiated them. The Jew
of to-day are grandly avenged, TO
proud France and naughty England
as we'll as other powers that persecut
ed their fathers unto death, are to-da,
bounded debtors and interest payin,
tributaries to the Israelites. Happil
the days of the workingmen's degre
5 dation and oppression are rapidly pass
ing away.
| said invention was the child of la
Dor, the elevator Of the race, the gran
civilizer of mankind. So it is, SO
4 has been, and so it will ever be
When the enterprise of nations re
quired new fields for action, the work
ingmen presented to the astonishe
and admiring sailor the mariner
: compass, and soon the terrors an
mysteries OF unknown lads were II
J, vealed Soon the virgin continent {
America presented her dazzlin
n charms to the rapturous caresses {
;, mankind. The printed blocks of tn
Chinese suggested to the orientii
traveller the idea of printed letter.
+ and soon the ingenious Gutenberg,
u workingman of Germany, invente
y types Soon Shoeffer, another Ge
h man laborer found way of castin
them in metal. Thus the press, th
II grandest human power the earth hi